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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 6 - Upgrading vSphere Web Client
Upgrading vSphere Web client from 5.1 to 5.5 is the Second step in vSphere 5.5 upgrade process followed by vCenter Single Sign-on upgrade. The vSphere Web Client allows you to connect to a vCenter...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 7 - Configuring vCenter Single Sign-on
We are done with upgrading vCenter Single sign-on and vSphere web client. Next step would be configuring vCenter single sign-on. In vSphere 5.5 , Active Directory identity source is not automatically...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 8 - Upgrading vCenter Inventory Service
The Next step after upgrading Single Sign-on and Web client is upgrading vCenter Inventory Service. vCenter Inventory service stores vCenter server application and inventory data. Which enables you to...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 9 - Upgrading vCenter Server
After upgrading vCenter single sing-on, web client and Inventory service, Next step would be upgrading your vCenter server. I am going to explain you step by step procedure for upgrading your vCenter...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 10 - Upgrading vCenter Update Manager
Once we are done with the upgrading all the pre-requisite components and vCenter to version 5.5 Next step would be upgrading other additional components like Update Manager to version 5.5. If your...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 11 - Upgrade ESXi hosts using Update Manager
After we have upgraded update Manager to version 5.5. Next step will be upgrading your ESXi host to ESXi 5.5. We have already seen few posts upgrade ESXi to 5.5 using Command Line and Inplace upgrade...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 12- Upgrade VMware Tools on Virtual Machines
ESXi host has been upgraded to ESXi 5.5. So next step will be updating your VMware tools of your virtual machine to the latest version. This post is going to cover the need and Importance of VMware...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 13- Upgrade VM Hardware Version for Virtual Machines
Once we are done with upgrading VMware Tools on the Virtual Machine. Next step will be upgrading the VM hardware version to 10 to avail the latest features of vSphere 5.5. It is always recommended to...
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vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 14 - Different Methods to access vSphere Environment
Finally We have done with almost all the steps in upgrading to vSphere 5.5. It really important to perform each tasks in upgrade process in exact order as specified in this Upgrade process. Now, we...
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Veeam Backup and Replication v7 R2 Released
Veeam Backup is the #1 backup software for Virtualization products like VMware and Hyper-v. Veeam has released it is update called Veeam Backup and Replication v7 R2. Veeam backup is the first backup...
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How to Generate HP ADU Disk Report in ESXi host
You would have come across a lot of instances of hard disk failures of your physical servers. It is necessary to generate HP ADU (Array Diagnostics Report) on the HP server and send it to your hardware...
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How to Configure HP ILO from ESXi host
Configuration of HP ILO can be done using reboot of your HP server and Press <F8> to configure the ILO settings but you need a down time to your ESXi host and all the virtual machines running on...
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Verify the Expiry Date of vCenter server and ESXi host SSL certificates
This is simple and special post for me because it is my 200th Post. I am glad to reach the count of 200 in within 1 year and 6 months of period from the date i have started my blogging. It is not...
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VMware Tools for Nested ESXi
We have been installing and testing lot of stuffs on ESXi hosts in our home lab. Providing individual hardware for each ESXi hosts in your lab is not affordable. So we arel running our ESXi hosts as a...
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Powershell Script to Collect Datastore Usage Report
In many situations, it is necessary to track the usage of datastore usage in our environment because if your datastore is full , it will cause a potential outage to your virtual machines in your...
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vSphere Distributed Switch Part 1 - Understanding the Architecture of...
vSphere Standard Switches (vSS) provides network connectivity to hosts and virtual machines. Standard switch can bridge traffic internally between virtual machines in the same VLAN and also link to...
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vSphere Distributed Switch Part 2 - Understand How Virtual Machine Traffic...
This post helps you to understand how the virtual machine traffic flows in different scenarios. I hope this post will really helps VMware learners to understand the basics of virtual networking and...
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vSphere Distributed Switch Part 3 - Difference between Standard Switch and...
I have been asked by lot of people during my training sessions about the difference's between standard and distributed switch. I decided it's the time to post the series of posts about distributed...
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vSphere Distributed Switch Part 4 - How to Create vSphere Distributed Switch
This is a simple post in vSphere distributed switch post series. Due to the licensing limitation that distributed switch can only be created with enterprise plus license. Lot of people may not have a...
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vSphere Distributed Switch Part 5 - Adding ESXi host to Distributed Switch
Once the Distributed Switch is created, next step will be adding the ESXi hosts to the distributed switch to associate the hosts with the switch. This post explains you the step by step procedure to...
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